Humanity was intended to exhibit Femininity
· God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it (Gen. 1:27-28)
· As He passed by, He saw a man blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him. (John 9:1-3)
Femininity is an aspect of being made in the Image of God
· God formed Israel in the womb (Isaiah 44:2, 24)
· “You neglected the Rock who begot you, and forgot the God who gave you birth.” (Deut. 32:18)
· “Was it I who conceived all this people? Was it I who brought them forth, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which You swore to their fathers’? (Numbers 11:12)
· But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me, And the Lord has forgotten me.” “Can a woman forget her nursing child and have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, but I will not forget you. “Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are continually before Me. (Isaiah 49:14-16)
· “As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.” (Isaiah 66:13)
· “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling. (Matthew 23:37)
· “May the Lord reward your work, and your wages be full from the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to seek refuge.” (Ruth 2:12)
· Keep me as the apple of the eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings (Psalm 17:8)
· John 3:3-7 “Born Again”
· John 16:7 H.S. Called the Helper, Matt. 28:20 Jesus will never leave us
Jesus Values Women
· Women in Jesus Ministry (Mark 15:40-41)
· Woman at the well (John 4)
· Jesus took good care of His Mother (John 19:26-27)
· First person the resurrected Jesus appeared to was a women (John 20)